yuen: Love Thyself

I‚Äôm not talking about being selfish, individualistic or self-centered. No thanks since we have many of those nowadays. I‚Äôm talking about a specific action, of repetitive motion; a mix of sweat, heavy breathing, half-eyed trance, fantasies and aching arm. An action that is so close, intimate, natural, yet treated for ages as a taboo; a dark humiliating secret shared with only with the closest peers: masturbation.

Year after year, those self-righteous religious fundamentalists and the society still hold the same perceptions on self-love, as a sin. Is that really a sin? One interferes with nobody‚Äôs life, disturbed no other‚Äôs emotion, forced nobody for gratification, disturbed nobody‚Äôs privacy; it is an act of love, one just being understanding and responding to one‚Äôs need. I‚Äôm thankful that humans have this ability, it keeps your sanity at times. If only people are more serious about their wanking, there may be no war in the world.

Some may say, self-gratification as a desperate attempt for a desperation but bear in mind, as we all have known, that even those with lovers and sexual fulfillment needs their dosage of self-love too. Masturbation is different, it may not be as good as sex, but you need it just like how you need sex; you can‚Äôt compare sugar with salt; one cannot replace the other. You may favor sugar or salt more but you need the other just the same, just as essential.

Honestly, who hasn‚Äôt act according to self love before? Tell me. Self-love may be the one of the sweat generating activity done by everybody in the world, probably having more participation worldwide than of football. Plus, it is more unisex than football. It could be the unifying factor for all the people in the world, if we could conduct something for masturbation like how the World Cup is for football. Think about it! And imagine how corporate sponsorship at the event will look like! It must be lots of fun. But then again masturbation couldn‚Äôt be a spectator sport, unless for all you exhibitionist out there! But think again of its potential as an unifying shared culture by all the people in the world. At this very moment probably there are hundreds of people in their bathroom (or car, public toilet, trailer etc) masturbating simultaneously, people of all races, male and female, may be thousands; under a common understanding of self-reward, committing their ritual of love, isn‚Äôt it beautiful?

The point here is, feel free to love yourself. In times when you feel that you need to be loved (or having difficulty to sleep, alone), feel free to start stroking. Just make sure that you‚Äôre well equipped with toilet paper, lubricant, aiding material (if necessary), lock the door. Indulge. It helps, trust me, losers like me who always sleep alone knows.

But then again, masturbate also has some drawbacks , which if u intend to masturbate for long term/till old, u may feel awkward when u have sex. ur partner may not satisfiy u as u already immune to your sex fantasy.

My friend would like to do a short movie called “Lancap”. But it’s very tough to find the actor that can really carry the role. It has to be said, there is no lancap scene at all. But, everybody was non-compromising to the idea. “Kalau aku berlakon, nanti orang ingat aku kuat melancap”-sort of thinkage. Hehe.

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